I flash back to sitting in a dentist's waiting room as a youngster, searching for such differences between two images in a Highlights for Children magazine.
You remember that You Need Not and You Need Only were originally part of one larger painting that I cut in half.
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| work in progress before the cut early August 2019 |
In the images below, spot the differences between the left-hand side of the original painting as it appeared when first cut (on left) and that same piece once completed (on right):
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I still am attracted to "find the differences". Somehow the one on the right looks larger, more blue and white, and the added red weeds, foreground section changed as well as shape sizes!
Carol, spotting differences is what our brains love to do!
The one on the right looks larger b/c I trimmed off about two inches at the bottom to create a better-proportioned rectangle to fit a standard size frame and mat, which then filled the camera frame differently when I photographed.
The color differences are artificial—paint color is the same, but I photographed under different conditions.
Biggest differences are the compositional changes that came from adding the red reeds and foreshortening the foreground.
Good eyes, Carol!
ooooh I remember those Highlights magazines! Color differences (water and sky), the addition/clarification of grasses, additional darks, widening water. When I look at this again, I see the brilliance of the vertical brushstrokes breaking up the horizontal water lines....whoa.
Jen, love that you remember Highlights mag! Also love all that you noticed. As I said to Carol, the color differences are mostly artificial—a matter of taking photos on different days under different conditions—but some of the changes are bona fide. What's especially gratifying is your pointing out the vertical brushstrokes breaking up the horizontal water lines, because I actually did that intentionally—woo hoo! When I cut the original in half, many compositional puzzles presented themselves; they were fun/engaging to resolve : )
Dear Dotty,
It's so beautiful to see the developments through last days posts! I really like the paintings with the small words hided in it!
Simone, hello! Thanks! Fun to know that you really like the paintings with the text collage bits waiting for discovery. Yay!
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